Well we are working on week 4 of being a mom... Its starting to come crashing down of not having a full nights sleep under my belt... My day looks something like this i wake up at about 2am and never really going back to sleep till about 730-8am i doze but thats about i might get an hour or so in that time after david leaves in the morning i get my laptop and put on my itunes and go to gretchen's playlist and sing and rock her back to sleep, we sleep for about 3 or 4 hours.. Then she goes back to sleep and i cant go back to sleep so i check my email, BLOG, and fiddle with the computer,then about after 230-3pm after gretchen eats i get up out of bed and pick up our room from the night before go and wash bottles and get ready for david to come once david is home i sit and talk to him for a little while when david comes home gretchen always seems to wake up and is wide awake for about an hour or hour and a half.. Then i feed her and put her back down sometimes i doze with her but its hard for me to sleep after david comes home cause i want to spend time with him and cause even though he is home his work phone is always ringing!!! I mean nonstop... Then i would say after about 8 or 9 his phone stops ringing and we can relaxe but then its the routine of take a shower eat dinner try and have some tv time with each other and then at about 11pm i relize i am about to fall over cause i am sleepy but why go to sleep for less then an hour cause she will be awake at midnight to eat then she goes back to sleep then i sleep for 2 hours and i am up agian at 2am with her.. WOW glamorous..LOL.. I need to look at my dad and get it organzied.. Its starting to effect my milk production.. I am going to start taking a herb i forget what its called but its suspose to help me make more milk. also i have given up on breastfeeding, as in her latching on to me.. I just pump my milk and i know its more time comsuming as far as pumping and then having to feed her vs just sticking her on my boob... I am happy as along as at least half of her feedings a day come from breast milk i am happpy.. I feel like she is getting what she needs from me and then the formula fills in the gaps that me not eatting all the veggies i am suspose to create...
Lets see what else is going on in my life, Oh i feel like there is a HUGE HUGE magnet pulling me VERY VERY VERY hard to oklahoama!!! I want to just pack up and go... I am trying to plan our trip in september, but have to see how davids work is going to go... Hopefully they will be ok with him taking 6 days off.. It will kill us money wise but i dont care, i want him to come with me.. Its will be the 1st time he has came with me to oklahoma and i think the timming couldnt be more perfect.. It will be really hard for me to leave when it comes time to leave cause it will be my favorite time of the year..
Lets see oh i mentioned rocking to sleep gretchen, I have never seem a baby so influenced by music, Its very funny and cool to me that she really response to the songs that i listened to a lot while i was preganat with her.. Songs i listened to to relax she goes to sleep with and then songs that i listened to when i was cleaning or running errors and i had energy she will lay there wide awake and look around..I finally found the cd collection i was looking for when i was preganat with her.. When i went to have my ultrasound done in feb. the lady used a cd for the background music that was johnny cash but it was in lullybye music, i loved it.. The collection is called hushabye... They have a few singers and they are all country.. The sister or cousin company is rockabye and they are songs by rock groups like ac/dc and such they keyed the music WAY down and made it nice and soft for the baby... I am going to be getting these on CD cause i cant find them off my music download site... also there is a cd called NOT FOR KIDS ONLY its by jerry garcia and someone else i forget his name, anyway when my sister had her 1st baby umm like 10 years ago she got this CD for my dad, me and him both fell in love with it!! They have just funny songs on it, kinda songs like "old dan tucker" I remeber my dad teaching me that song when i was little, So we listen to that CD in the afternoon and then there are a few songs that i listen to in the morning that i sing to her, godspeed by the dixie chicks and a song called sailing by chris cross..
Lets see what else is going on, oh i am going to be getting the ab circle pro, cause i gotta lose this belly fat!!! I have always been a bigger girl, but i never thought i was flabby fat and guess what no i feel i am so its time to kick it in the butt...I know i weigh less now then i did before i got pregnant but i just feel flabby and i have a stomach which i never really had one i always seem to have a flat stomach it didnt pooch out...
Oh found a new photo site more for just storing pictures and editting them, its called picasa. I really like it and lisa my sister-inlaw can get it at her work.. Which is good for her cause she can run shutterfly at all.. She doesnt know how to get on it at all which i dont understand but oh well..LOL its also tied into BLOGGER so it seems to have the pictures i have added to a blog on it... I really like it...But shutterfly still has my heart for storing sharing and buying speaking of which i got 12 free cards that expire today!! i gotta get those order before they go bye bye!!! Well i think that is all i have to blog about, thats all i have in my blog notes!! LOL yes i keep notes on what i am going to blog about or else i will forget and this blog would die off!!!
2 comments:
Sleep will come - they are almost a month old.
On the picture deal - at JC Penny or sears - you can get coupons for 3.99 a sheet(after you buy some at the regular price 7.99) usually they take like 6 or more poses - you buy one 8x10 of each for you - if one is your favorite you can get extras of that pose. Watch out -they will enhance them with sepia and stuff and that costs extra - only do that if you are in love with it - then when you get them home you can scan them and enhance them the way you want for free and then email them to your friends - this is the cheap way (less than 100 bucks - sometimes less than 50) Not really legal according to copyright laws - but most people do this and I don't know if anyone yet that has been sent to jail over it.
That is probably the best way for you guys since you live so far away - each person can get the email an if they want a printed one - they can do it themselves - of course you would need to mail copies to people who dont have computers.
This is what I do with most of our photos - unless it is family portraits and then I spend a little more.
The portrait sheets usually come 10x 13, 8x10, 2 5x7, 4 31/2 x5 or wallets - each sheet is one price like 7.99 you have to buy like 6 or 7 then the price is 3.99 with your coupon - some places have other coupons and will type them all in to find the lowest price. Don't be afraid to tell them what you want when it comes to the pose, background, etc - you can take your own props and are usually allowed to change clothes once.
Hope this helps
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